Programs and Services: Reading Circles

Reading circles are organized around particular themes or literacy objectives. Whether individual community library initiatives or part of Nunavut and Canada-wide programs, reading circles are opportunities to develop an appreciation for good books and good stories.

TD Summer Reading Program 2009

The TD Summer Reading Program has been offered in Nunavut since it started in 2005. The theme for the 2009 TD Summer Reading Program will be “Agent 009”. The program is sponsored by the TD Financial Group and developed by the staff at the Toronto Public Library, with assistance from staff at Ottawa Public Library and Library & Archives Canada. For more information go to http://www.td-club-td.ca/.

TD Summer Reading Program will be offered at the following Public Libraries in Nunavut.

Story Time

NPLS encourages each library to provide regularly scheduled programs directed towards preschool children, their parents, and caregivers. These programs are generally known as Story Time.

Story Time is:

Telling or reading stories, playing games, singing songs, puppet shows, simple handicrafts or any other activity that young children might enjoy at the library.

In English, French, Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, or any combination of languages that are used in the community.

An opportunity to bring elders, volunteer story-tellers, parents, older children, and community leaders into the library as people from whom the children can learn the stories of their own heritage as well as stories of other heritages.

For more information on reading circles and related programs, contact Sue MacIsaac, Community Services Librarian ().